Wednesday, August 06, 2025

History of Digital Media

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  I have never watched the American animated series "King of the Hill," don't know much about it.  But boy, this image (found ...
Tuesday, August 05, 2025

Book Notes: Milner on credit for the Normandy campaign

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I know of Marc Milner for North Atlantic Run and U-Boat Hunters , which in the 1980s and 1990s pretty much set the standard for serious Can...
Friday, July 25, 2025

The Tour: winning (and not) breakaways

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better days...image from Woods's website. The trouble with Tadej Pogachar being so damn strong... is that even the biggest mountain stag...
Monday, July 21, 2025

Summer listening: with me

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Quite by accident I have discovered that on Friday the CanHist podcast "Witness to Yesterday" reposted my half-hour conversation w...
Friday, July 18, 2025

Hugh Brody talks

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NiCHE  has just posted a terrific interview with Hugh Brody .  Originally a British anthropology student, Brody made himself into an embedde...
Thursday, July 17, 2025

History of the Giller: money and politics in arts, culture, and sport.

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I have to agree with a lot of the criticism online after the Giller Prize told Ottawa it might have to shut down if federal subsidy for the...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Book Notes. Forthcoming: a backroom history of Canada

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Jim Coutts was the brains behind Pierre-Elliott Trudeau. Well, no, Trudeau had his own brains. But Jim Coutts was his indispensable righthan...

The Tour's dirty secret (other than drugs)

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A friend by the roadside Canadian cyclist Michael Woods tried to ride with a breakaway group the other day.  Got lots of TV coverage for a w...
Monday, July 14, 2025

The Tour! The Tour! UPDATED

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Why this man is laughing. Ten days into the Tour de France, and no notice of it here yet? I'm betraying the masthead promise.  But I...

Book Notes: Andrew Coyne on Canadian Democracy

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[ I've been slow to post this while trying to sort out my thoughts on this important book.  For those not so taken with the minutiae of ...

This month at Canada's History: Aug Sept 2025

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Lead article at Canada's History this month is a long reported piece on all the indigenous art pieces that were collected for a 1925 ex...
Monday, July 07, 2025

Paul Wells on the Canadian face

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Sean Downey, Near the Elevator, Kingston Prize 2023 The quest for a national portrait gallery for Canada is too long and convoluted to think...

Borealia blog shutting down

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After a decade of encouraging academics to exchange thoughts and theses and opinions about early Canadian history (most of which emphaticall...
Wednesday, July 02, 2025

Honours Watch: Historians at the Order of Canada

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A few historically relevant careers honoured in the Canada Day appointments to the Order of Canada yesterday:   Robert Janes , eminent museo...

Prize Watch: True North for Patrice Dutil

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A new-to-me Institute called the Canada History Society  -- " dedicated to promoting and preserving the history of Canada" --has a...